Sciences and Technology

James Kakalios / The Physics of Everyday Things (Large Paperback) -

The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day James Kakalios     A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more...

Wally Wang / Visual Basic 3 for Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Employing a non-threatening, conversational style, this guide to the programming language for non-programmers covers programming concepts, writing your first program, and programming examples using Visual Basic 3. Original.   This book is second...

Hayley Birch / The Big Questions in Science (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Ian Graham / Science Enyclopaedia (Coffee Table Book)

This 256 page book takes a comprehensive look at the very beginnings of science and what science is. Several Sections Matter and Chemicals; Energy, Motion and Machines; Electricity and Magnetism; Light and Sound; Earth and Life; Space and Time; and...

Bill Bryson / A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. Bill Bryson (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Stephen W. Hawking / The Universe in a Nutshell (Coffee Table Book)

Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time , introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world.Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly...

Edward Yourdon / Death March (Large Paperback)

The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects Author provides technology and management insights to the worst IS projects, demonstrating how to maximize your chances of success, and/or how to make sure your career...

Simon Monk / Programming Arduino (Large Paperback)

Getting Started with Sketches, Second Edition Program Arduino with ease! This thoroughly updated guide shows, step by step, how to quickly program all Arduino models. Programming Getting Started with Sketches , Second Edition, features easy to follow...

R. C. Stephens / Mechanics Machines (Large Paperback)

Elementary Theory & Examples For the fourth edition the text has been revised throughout and outdated examples and problems have been replaced by a greater number of more recent ones. These revisions have been especially significant in the chapters...

E.C. Rollason / Metallurgy for Engineers (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Chris Chatfield / Statistics for Technology (Large Paperback)

A Course in Applied Statistics One of the most popular introductory texts in its field, Statistics for Technology: A Course in Applied Studies presents the range of statistical methods commonly used in science, social science, and engineering.The...

Ian Stewart / Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Large Paperback)

Some years ago, "new math" took the country's classrooms by storm. Based on the abstract, general style of mathematical exposition favored by research mathematicians, its goal was to teach students not just to manipulate numbers and formulas, but to...

Adam Gopnik / The Real Work - On the Mystery of Mastery(Large Paperback)

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of...

Dan Gookin / Nexus 7 For Dummies (Large Paperback)

Friendly advice on leveraging the power of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet! The arrival of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet is eagerly awaited, thanks to its cutting-edge software, top-notch hardware, unprecedented abilities, and nine-hour battery life. This...

Kevin Robins / Times of the Technoculture (Large Paperback)

From the Information Society to the Virtual Life Frank Webster This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to questions of identity centred around the figure of the cyborg. This book is second hand, and...

Toru Ishida / Community Computing and Support Systems (Large Paperback)

Social Interaction in Networked Communities Jörg H. Siekmann (Editor), Jaime G. Carbonell (Editor) This article discusses the community metaphor as the next stage of network computing. The first meeting in Kyoto was blessed with...

Peter G. Neumann / Computer-Related Risks (Large Paperback)

This book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people...

Terry Winograd / Bringing Design to Software (Large Paperback)

 John Bennett (Editor), Laura De Young (Editor), Bradley Hartfield (Editor) The book contains essays contributed by prominent software and design professionals, interviews with experts, and profiles of successful projects...

Lynne Hamill & Amparo Lasen (Editors)/ Mobile World - Past, Present and Future (Large Paperback)

There is a growing body of interesting research exploring the social shaping of mobile phones, covering a wide range of topics, from new forms of communication, to the changes in time organization, the uses of public places, the display of emotions and...

Theodore Roszak / The Cult of Information- A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (Large Paperback)

  As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous information does not necessarily lead to sound thinking. "Data glut" obscures basic questions of...

Thomas K. Landauer / The Trouble with Computers (Large Paperback)

Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity Despite enormous investments in computers over the last twenty years, productivity in the very service industries at which they were aimed virtually stagnated everywhere in the world. If computers are not...

Aphra Kerr / The Business and Culture of Digital Games (Large Paperback)

Gamework and Gameplay This book explores the lifecycle of digital games. Drawing upon a broad range of media studies perspectives with aspects of sociology, social theory, and economics, Aphra Kerr explores this all-pervasive, but under-theorized, aspect...

Starr Roxanne Hiltz / Network Nation -Human Communication via Computer Revised Edition (Large Paperback)

  A visionary book when it was first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nation has become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediated communication (C.M.C.). This revised edition adds a substantial new...

Bill Gaver / The Presence Project (Large Paperback)

The account of an influential 2001 project in technology design documents the development of key concepts that have since become standard practice.The influential Presence Project brought together an international group of collaborators in 2001 to...

Gerd Gigerenzer / Calculated Risks - How to Know When Numbers Decieve You (Large Paperback)

How to Know When Numbers Deceive You At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first...

Cally Hall / Gemstones - DK Smithsonian Handbooks (Large Paperback)

  "The Dorling Kindersley Handbook of Gemstones" is packed with more than 800 vivid full-colour photographs of more than 130 varieties of cut and uncut stones organic gemstones and precious metals. With authoritative text clear photography and a...

Diane Vaughan / The Challenger Launch Decision - Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA(Large Paperback)

  When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the...

Charles Hepworth Holland & Ian S. Sanders - The Geology of Ireland ( 2nd Edition) - 2009

The Geology of Ireland is the definitive guide to the geology of the island of Ireland as a whole. This completely revised edition has been updated to reflect the ten years of research undertaken since the last edition was published. For the first time...

W.I Mitchell - The Geology of Northern Ireland - 2nd Edition - PB - 2004

Large format paperback, illustrated in colour throughout, published by GSNI ( Geological Survey of Northern Ireland ) 2nd edition. 

Daniel J. Fairbanks / Evolving (Large Paperback)

The Human Effect and Why It Matters This persuasive, elegantly written book argues that understanding evolution has never mattered more in human history. The author uses evidence from archaeology, geography, anatomy, biochemistry, radiometric dating,...

Glyn Moody / Rebel Code - Linux And The Open Source Revolution (Large Paperback)

Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution Glyn Moody     "Open source" began as the mantra of a small group of idealistic hackers and has blossomed into the all-important slogan for progressive business and computing. This...

J.D. Bernal / Science in History Vol 1-4 (4 Book Collection)

J.D. Bernal / Science in History Vol 1-4 (4 Book Collection)     This collection is second hand unless otherwise stated in the description. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. The...

Mustafa Suleyman / The Coming Wave : AI, Power and Our Future:(Large Paperback)

f you want to understand the rise of AI, this is the best book to read' BILL GATES'Important' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Astonishing' STEPHEN FRY'Stunning' RORY STEWART Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and...

Eugenia Cheng / Beyond Infinity (Large Paperback)

An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe The brilliant and charismatic Eugenia Cheng takes us on a dizzying journey through what's bigger than infinity and smaller than its oppositeEvery child had a schoolyard fight that ended with...

Philip Ball / The Book of Minds (Large Paperback)

How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing...

Henry N. Pollack / Uncertain Science ... Uncertain World (Large Paperback)

Scientific uncertainty puzzles many people. The confusion arises when scientists have more than one answer, and disagree among themselves. By acquainting readers with the ways that uncertainty arises in science, how scientists accommodate and make use of...

Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters of Eve (Large Paperback)

The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. In 1994 Bryan Sykes was called in as an expert to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in...

John Pethick / An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology (Large Paperback)

This is an introduction to wave and tidally dominated landforms, including beaches, cliffs, dunes, estuaries, mudflats and salt-marshes. Working from basic principles the author discusses the physical mechanisms by which this wide variety of landforms is...

Storm Dunlop / Collins Night Sky & Starfinder (Large Paperback)

An introductory guide to navigating your way around the night sky and identifying what you can see on any given night. Designed as an introduction for the beginner and those who want to find out more, this text covers everything that can be seen with the...

Nick Polson / AIQ (Large Paperback)

How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from...

Gary A. Thibodeau / Structure and Function of the Body (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Anita Ganeri / From Sextant to Sonar (Coffee Table Book)

From Sextant to Sonar looks at the history of maps and navigation, from the oldest known map of the world which was carved in clay, to medieval sea maps complete with monsters, to the maps that resulted from the great age of European exploration. It...

Karl Sabbagh / The Living Body (Coffee Table Book)

1984, an illustrated guide to the human body.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

David H. Levy / Practical Skywatching (Coffee Table Book)

Practical Skywatching is part of a four-book series, The Nature Companions; practical guides to observing and appreciating the wonders of the natural world. This spectacular series provides readers with a thorough understanding of topics such as...

John T. Moore / Organic Chemistry II For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

A plain-English guide to one of the toughest courses around So, you survived the first semester of Organic Chemistry (maybe even by the skin of your teeth) and now it's time to get back to the classroom and lab! Organic Chemistry II For Dummies is an...

Arthur Winter / Organic Chemistry I for Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

A plain-English guide to one of the toughest science courses aroundOrganic chemistry is rated among the most difficult courses that students take and is frequently the cause of washout among pre-med, medical, and nursing students. This book is an...

Robert Lloyd Praeger - Natural History of Ireland - HB - 1950

An undated ( but 1972) EPP reprint edition, first published 1950 .  This edigtion with an introduction by Raymond Piper.  The covers are in a period removable jacket cover, this was taped to the inside covers, leaving a brown tape ghostmark on...

John Harris / Enhancing Evolution - The Ethical Case (Hardback)

Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable, and have often met with extreme...

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set).

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set).   Does Anything eat Wasps? Why don't Penguins Feet Freeze? Do Polar Bears get Lonely?

The Journal of Collaborative Computing/ Computer Supported Cooperative Work (14 Book Collection)

Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing (14 Book Collection)

The Periodic Table (3 Book Collection)

The Periodic Table (3 Book Collection) A guide to elements and their uses - ( ex library )  Aluminium Fluorine & the Halogens Hydrogen

Semiconductor Circuit Design 1972 (4 Book Collection) ( Vintage Computing & Technology)

Semiconductor Circuit Design (4 Book Collection)   vol 1 vol 4 vol 3 vol 5